Plus the steering wheel lock and parking brake are always additional options. I try to remember to lock the steering wheel (just turn it one direction until it clicks locked when there's no key; to unlock pull the steering in one direction while trying to turn the key clockwise) and I always set the parking brake every time I park, before I shift into P. I use the parking brake because it puts the weight of the car on the wheels rather than the transmission's parking pawl, and it makes it significantly easier to shift out of P even on Florida's flat ground, and to prevent the car from rolling and potentially snapping the parking pawl if some jackass hits my parked car in some parking lot. Frequent use of the parking brake also prevents the brake cable from seizing up and rusting (though rust ain't an issue in FL) and I believe also adjusts the rear drums (though the manual says that every time the brake pedal is pushed, the brakes self-adjust, so I'm not certain). Of course the parking brake might require more frequent adjustment or other maintenance as a result, but whatever. There's a recent giant 5 page thread on BITOG about this very subject if anybody wants to read more anecdotes about the parking brake.fueler wrote:nice system!
PS you don't need "the club" in an R50 pathfinder. Our keys have a chip in them that need to be programmed, which thieves don't ever have. R50 parts are not worth enough for a thief to go through the trouble of finding an R50 ECU, mating it to a chipped key, and then swapping that stuff out when stealing a car. And if they DO go through all that trouble, then cutting a club off a steering wheel is childs play to such a thief. But trust me - it's not gonna happen.
If anybody breaks into your Pathfinder, it will be to steal the stuff inside.... but the Pathfinder won't move.
I regularly leave my QX4 unattended in bad neighborhoods in mexico with no steering wheel club & no worries whatsoever.
